Open Day at Canberra City Farm - Celebrating ten years at Dairy Road

We’re celebrating our first ten years at Dairy Road with a gala open day! The gate is open to all with a fun and inspirational community event:

• shop at our stalls

• learn from our workshops and tours

• enjoy the friendly community and meet the organisations that help make the Farm a centre for regenerative urban agriculture

• see our work-in-progress microforest, currently funded by a Nature in the City Grant.

At midday we’ll be toasting our achievements, thanking the Canberra community for their support, and looking forward to a sustainable and regenerative future where we can all make a difference. Hear from Laura Nutall MLA, and Judy Friedlander (author of The Bee Squad: Boosting Biodiversity in your Neighbourhood), as she launches our brand new website, listen to Canberra’s Pop Up Choir.

Drop in or stay the whole day. Hear the buzz of bees and people, eat homemade ice-cream, see what’s growing and get your hands dirty. There’s something for everyone!

Provisional workshop program (subject to change)

10.30 am – 12 noon

• We’re making biochar! Fire the retort!

• Make your own native bee hotel – free event by ACT for Bees + Other Pollinators, currently sold out but you can go on a wait list here

• Green trash-to-treasure in action: hot composting and microbiological brewing

11 am – 12 noon

• Tour the Farm, see our new microforest

• An introduction to saving your own seeds, Canberra Seed Savers

• About the Canberra snake-tracking project, a talk with volunteer trackers from the Farm.

12 noon

10th birthday celebration, address by Laura Nuttall MLA, website launch by Judy Friedlander (author of The Bee Squad: Boosting Biodiversity in your Neighbourhood), delicious lunch, Canberra’s Pop Up Choir

1.30 pm – 2.30 pm

• Setting up a small scale worm farm with Cid Riley from Global Worming

• The 7 reasons of why—your say. Delving into the connections between cultural identity, environmental awareness and inclusivity with the Australian Talented Youth Project

• Storytelling: the first ten years at Dairy Road

• What’s so special about our feijoa orchard? Tour and talk with Mark O’Connor

3 pm – 4 pm

• Tour our ‘sustainable house’, the Low Energy Super Shed

• Children’s gardening project—Little Green Thumbs

• Big orchard tour with Dr Jonathan Banks

Current list of stallholders

ACT for Bees + Other Pollinators

ACT Rural Fire Service Fyshwick (10:30-11:30 am)

ACT Wildlife

Canberra Organic Growers Society

Canberra Seed Savers

Chameleon Ice Creamery

Conservation Council ACT Regiion

Global Worming

Kids Plants

Nourish and Breathe

Pupusería (Salvadoran food)

Queer Food

SEE Change

Southern Harvest Association